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<a href="#BasicLanguageSupport">Basic Language Support</a></div><div class=Topic><a name=FullLanguageSupport></a><div class=TopicTitle>Full Language Support</div><p>The following languages have full language support, which means you get:</p><p><b>Full code documentation.</b>&nbsp; All functions, variables, and classes will appear in the output regardless of whether you wrote anything for them.&nbsp; This can be turned off with the <a href="running.html#CommandLine"><code>-do</code> command line option.</a></p><p><b>Inheritance diagrams.</b>&nbsp; They will appear in the output wherever appropriate.</p><p><b>Javadoc compatibility.</b>&nbsp; Natural Docs can read most Javadoc comments and include them in the output.&nbsp; You can also write Natural Docs documentation without topic lines by using the Javadoc comment symbols.</p><p><b>Auto-scoping.</b>&nbsp; The class a topic is part of is determined by the source code rather than class and section topics.</p><ul class=LanguageList><li>C# <i>(1.1, some 2.0)</i></li><li>Perl</li><li>ActionScript <i>(2 and 3)</i></li></ul></div><div class=Topic><a name=BasicLanguageSupport></a><div class=TopicTitle>Basic Language Support</div><p>The following languages have basic language support, which means you have:</p><p><b>Explicit documentation only.</b>&nbsp; Only things you write Natural Docs documentation for will appear in the output.</p><p><b>No inheritance diagrams.</b></p><p><b>Natural Docs comments only.</b>&nbsp; They also need to include a topic line.</p><p><b>Topic scoping.</b>&nbsp; The class a topic is part of is determined by the <a href="documenting/reference.html#KeywordsTopicsAndScope">topic scoping rules</a>.</p><ul class=LanguageList><li>C/C++</li><li>Java</li><li>PHP</li><li>Python</li><li>PL/SQL</li><li>Visual Basic</li><li>Pascal/Delphi</li><li>Ada</li><li>JavaScript</li><li>Ruby</li><li>Tcl</li><li>ColdFusion</li><li>Assembly</li><li>Fortran <i>(free-format only)</i></li><li>R</li><li>Makefiles</li><li>Plain Text</li><li><a href="customizinglanguages.html">Custom Languages</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td></td><td class=SideMenuBottom><table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td class=SideMenuBottomLeft><img src="images/menu/bottomleft.png" width=18 height=19></td><td class=SideMenuBottomRight><img src="images/menu/bottomright.png" width=18 height=19></td></tr></table></td><td class=BodyBottom>Copyright &copy; 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